One of the people most active in driving Chinese investment in Australian farmland, David Goodfellow, is switching camps to help build a $1 billion Canadian investment portfolio.
Fed up with local officials denying their demand for land, 40 women decided to form a collective and start farming a plot near their village of Pallur, India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu. As of March 2017, about 300,000 women were farming more than 51,000 hectares of land in collectives.
An online real estate platform co-founded by Jared Kushner and financed by Goldman Sachs says it will expand into farmland deals.
The CCL Kazakhstan ‘Silk Road’ Agriculture Growth Fund has financed a dairy-commodity farm in the Akmola region of Kazakhstan – Aina dairy farm LLP – for $10.4m, by purchasing a majority stake.
Indonesian NGOs protest police security forces shooting at one of Wilmar International’s oil palm plantations in Central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo.
An increase in land grabbing in Uganda has pushed Slow Food to launch a campaign against it
Charoen Pokphand is building another facility in China, located outside the city of Hengshui in Hebei province near Beijing. The facility will add 100 million broilers to its poultry production in the country and keep it ahead of local rivals like Guangdong Wens Foodstuff Group Co and the Tongwei Group.
Jeudi 5 janvier, le Château Bellefont Belcier dans le Bordelais est devenu propriété de Peter Kwok, un investisseur chinois.
The chief investment officer for the University of Illinois Foundation is aiming to make farmland about 10 percent of the $1.8 billion endowment portfolio she oversees.
China's Drex Food Group is said to be investing US$400m in dairy farms and milk processing facilities in Vitebsk Oblast in Belarus.
Kiev keeps putting off land reforms, despite pressure from the IMF and investors.
Turkey-Sudan Business Council Chair Mehmet Ali Korkmaz indicated that 780,000 hectares of land leased by Turkey in Sudan would be open to Turkish investors and agriculture production, doubling Turkey's crop.
